ABSTRACT

Successful studies have been undertaken to investigate the pounding effect on buildings and to develop engineering solutions regarding the behaviour of buildings under different soil effects. However, since the last two decades, the pounding effect of adjacent buildings considering the soil-structure effects is yet to be understood fully. This chapter describes the proposed system models, firstly, the behaviour of the symmetric adjacent buildings having base isolations is investigated with pounding effects, ignoring the soil structure interaction (SSI) system and torsion effect; next, in order to consider the effects of the large and small SSI systems, two-way asymmetric coupled buildings are modelled. A simplified model for the SSI problem was used considering the pounding force on the behaviour of adjacent buildings. The interaction forces at the soil-structure interface are simulated, using a frequency-independent spring and dashpot set in parallel.